necessary
IPA: nˈɛsʌsɛri
noun
- (chiefly UK, archaic, euphemistic, usually with the definite article) A place to do the "necessary" business of urination and defecation: an outhouse or lavatory.
- (obsolete) Necessity.
- A surname.
adjective
- Required, essential, whether logically inescapable or needed in order to achieve a desired result or avoid some penalty.
- Unavoidable, inevitable.
- (obsolete) Determined, involuntary: acting from compulsion rather than free will.
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Examples of "necessary" in Sentences
- Is it necessary to abet them
- Replace the thermostat if necessary.
- The map is extraordinarily necessary.
- That kind of artifice is not necessary.
- Simplification of the case is necessary.
- THe obtuseness comment is not necessary.
- The necessary condition for tractability.
- The blood is for the necessary transfusions.
- It is necessary for the sustenance of the universe.
- We can, therefore, prognosticate enough to recognize that unpleasant or necessary tasks will be needed eventually.
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